Spence played guitar so hard that one night at a gig in Cambridge, Mass. in the late sixties, he broke one of his own strings, asked for another guitar, took Jim Kweskin’s and popped three of them on the first shot. When not busting wires, however, he played the most complete and beautiful Bahamian guitar music ever heard. In his words, “In dem days I play everything y’know. I play reel, capalka, waltz, tup, jazz, Bach, heel-and-toe polka, clubs, long meter, short meter, hymn and anthem. All dem ting I play.” And he did. You won’t believe this stuff.
